Improvement in sofa-beds



W LIVINGSTONE'.

Sofa-Beds.

NO.]55,876 Patented Oct-13,1874.

. INVENTDBI BY r monutm THE GRAPHIC COJHOY O'UTI'LZBS4I PARK PLAOLIX,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE, OF SPRINGFIELD STORE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO DENZER,MEDIOUS 85 00., OF NEW YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOFA-BEDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,876, dated October13, 1874; application filed August 1, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Lrvnvcsronn, of Springfield Store, in thecounty of Queens and State of New York, have invented anew and ImprovedSofa-Bed, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents an end elevation of myimproved sofabed or bed-lounge with part out off to show slide-supportof headpiece. Fig. 2 shows a front View of the same as thrown open; andFig. 3 a detail vertical transverse section of the head-piecesupporting-slides on line 0 c, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to an improved sofabed or bed-lounge, by which thesame may be readily changed from a sofa or lounge to a bed, and viceversa, being firmly and steadily supported in open or closed position.My invention consists of a movable head-piece of the sofa or lounge,which moves in suitable supporting-slides on the main frame and gives arigid support to the hinged section when thrown open. The intermediatespace between head-piece or back is provided with flexible bands, whichare stored into a recess of the back and covered by a suitable pivotedface-piece.

In the drawing, A represents the frame part of my sofa-bed orbed-lounge; B, the back of the same; and C, the hinged section, whichforms the seat of the sofa or lounge, and part of the bed when thrownopen in the usual manner. The head-piece D is in my sofa-bed not madestationary, but movable, and may be drawn out 'to the full width of thehinged section. It is connected with the recessed and slotted end partof main frame A by means of extensionslides with suitable stops, asshown in Figs. 1 and 3, the intermediate supporting slide-piece Erunning in frame A and the head-piece inside of slide E. The head-pieceD is first drawn out to its full extent; the hinged section 0 is thenturned over and supported on a projecting bracket-extension, a, of thefoot of the headpieceD. The foot end of hinged section 0 is supported ona pivoted leg, I), in the customary manner. A hook and staple, d, securethe connection of hinged section with head-piece in the open position.The space formed between the headpiece when drawn out and the back maybe bridged over for the purpose of supporting the pillows with rigidwood or metallic bands, which slide into the head-piece, or providedwith lateral and cross-bands e, of suitable flexible material, which arestored away into a recess, g, of the back B, on sliding back thehead-piece. A pivoted arm, is applied to the back, and is placed overthe bands 6 after the same have been carefully adjusted in the recess soas to be out of sight. The arm f forms the iacil'lg-piecetor the same,and serves, also, by a suitable spring-catch mechanism, to connectrigidly the movable head-piece with the back. The difi'erent parts ofthe sot'abed are thereby, and by the head-piece, firmly and stronglysecured and supported, whether arranged as a sofa or bed, and they arealso changed with case from one position into the other.

I am aware that extension head-rests for sofa-bedsteads are not new, andI do not, therefore, desire to claim the same broadly.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat ent- The combination, in a sofa-bedstead, of theextension head-piece D, flexible bands or slides c, extension-slide E,and hinged independent top section 0 with the back B, having a recess,g, and a pivoted arm, f, for closing the rear of said recess, all theparts being constructed and relatively arranged as herein shown anddescribed.

WILLIAM .LIVINGSTONE.

Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, T. B. llIOSHER.

